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Books
Andy Campbell: We Are Proud Boys: How a Right-Wing Street Gang Ushered in a New Era of American Extremism.
Alexandra Minna Stern: Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate: How the Alt-Right Is Warping the American Imagination.
2024
January 5. Tess Owen: Headed Into Election Year, Proud Boys Appear to Be on Decline: Data collected by VICE News shows the far-right street fighting group has drastically cut back on public appearances over the last year.
January 6. Ford Fischer (Twitter thread): In what appears to be their biggest showing of force in three years, Proud Boys gathered today outside the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus for a rally commemorating Ashli Babbitt and January 6 prisoners on the anniversary of the riot at the US Capitol.
January 28. Martin Pengelly: US historians sign brief to support Colorado’s removal of Trump from ballot: Twenty-five civil war and Reconstruction scholars support invoking 14th amendment to bar Trump from ballot over January 6.
February 4. AP News: Claims that Jan. 6 rioters are ‘political prisoners’ endure. Judges want to set the record straight.
February 22. Tess Owen: Inside the Christian Nationalist Church Where Proud Boys Go to be Baptized: Southern California pastor Hansel Orzame leads an “unwoke church” where he prepares his followers to wage “spiritual warfare.”
April 20. Isaac Arnsdorf: Proud Boys appear at Trump rally, drawing condemnation from Biden.
May 16. Martin Pengelly: Gaetz invokes Trump’s call to far-right Proud Boys at hush-money trial: Republican congressman travels to New York to support former president and says he is ‘standing back, and standing by’.
June 3. Aram Roston: The Proud Boys are back: How the far-right group is rebuilding to rally behind Trump.
June 18. Alex DeLuca: Ex-Proud Boy Is Running for High-Ranking Position in Miami-Dade GOP: The candidate’s run may provide insight into whether the Miami-Dade GOP is still willing to embrace Proud Boys-linked locals.
September 16. Jordan Fischer: ‘I’m so ready to kick the lungs loose’: Self-proclaimed Proud Boy, friend charged with conspiracy against Congress on Jan. 6.
2023
January 4. Tess Owen: Five Proud Boys are facing up to 20 years in prison on seditious conspiracy charges for their roles in planning the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.
January 10. Lawfare: Proud Boys Trial Diary.
January 12. The Washington Post: U.S. says Proud Boys ‘did not stand back,’ sought to keep Trump in office.
January 13. Tess Owen: FBI Informants Who Marched With Proud Boys on Jan. 6 Will Testify for Their Defense.
January 24. Hannah Allam: For one Proud Boys tracker, trial offers long-awaited accountability: For years, Megan Squire warned about the Proud Boys’ mobilization to violence. Now, she’s watching them stand trial over the U.S. Capitol attack.
January 24. Brandi Buchman: An expectation of civil war and ‘second thoughts’ on Jan. 6: Former Proud Boy testifies at trial.
February 15. The Washington Post: Proud Boys leader learned of upcoming arrest from D.C. police officer.
March 6. Spencer S. Hsu: Alleged Three Percenter who marched with Proud Boys on Jan. 6 pleads guilty.
March 7. Spencer S. Hsu: In video, Proud Boys leaders discussed plan to meet Alex Jones at Capitol.
March 29. Greg Walters. This Black Church Is Demanding $22 Million From the Proud Boys.
April 6. Holmes Lybrand & Hannah Rabinowitz: Proud Boys juror raises concern she’s being followed.
April 24. The Washington Post: Proud Boys saw themselves as ‘Trump’s army,’ U.S. says in trial closings.
April 24. Jordan Fischer: ‘A fighting force lined up behind Trump’ | Prosecutors say Proud Boys came to D.C. ready for war on Jan. 6.
April 26. Brandi Buchman: THE BIG FINISH: The Proud Boys seditious conspiracy trial goes to the jury.
April 27. CBS News: Jury deliberates for second day in Proud Boys seditious conspiracy case.
May 4. By Alan Feuer & Zach Montague: Four Proud Boys Convicted of Sedition in Key Jan. 6 Case.
May 5. NPR: Hate-fueled violence is growing even as Proud Boys are convicted for extremism.
May 8. Aymann Ismail: There’s a Deeper Threat Than the Proud Boys: The “seditious conspiracy” verdicts are historic. They are far from a cure.
May 19. The Washington Post: D.C. police officer arrested, accused of leaking info to Proud Boys leader.
May 25. Maya Yang: Florida mother behind ban on Amanda Gorman poem has Proud Boys links.
June 20. David Gilbert: Inside Moms for Liberty’s Close Relationship With the Proud Boys. Across the United States, Moms for Liberty chapters have forged close relationships with far-right extremist groups.
September 1. Tom Jackman: Proud Boys leader, Capitol window smasher set to be sentenced: Prosecutors are seeking 30 years for Ethan Nordean and 20 years for Dominic Pezzola.
September 5. Tom Jackman & Rachel Weiner: Ex-Proud Boys leader Tarrio sentenced to 22 years for Jan. 6 Capitol attack.
September 5. Alan Feuer: Ex-Leader of Proud Boys Sentenced to 22 Years in Jan. 6 Sedition Case.
September 6. Tess Owen: A Trump Judge Sentenced Proud Boy Leader to 22 Years. Jan. 6 Apology Crew Blames ‘Biden Regime’.
September 6. Andy Campbell: Proud Boys Didn’t Just Crash An Election. They Upended The Next One Too. Five Proud Boys leaders are going to prison over Jan. 6. But we haven’t seen the end of the gang, or the damage it inflicted on the American political landscape.
September 8. Ellie Silverman & Rachel Weiner: They confronted Proud Boys but don’t celebrate their prison sentences.
September 12. Tom Jackman: Former Proud Boys leader says prosecutors pushed him to implicate Trump: After being sentenced to 22 years for seditious conspiracy, Tarrio tells The Post he met with government shortly before trial but that no deal was cut.
October 4. Shane Burley: Review: We Are Proud Boys.
October 17. Tom Jackman: U.S. to appeal sentences of five Proud Boys in Jan. 6 Capitol riot case: Prison terms were among the longest for Jan. 6 defendants, but far below government recommendations.
December 14. Kieran Doyle, Daniel Hershfield, & Bianca Ho: Riding the Tide: The Shifting Identity of the Proud Boys Since the Capitol Riot.
2022
January 4. PBS: Mainstream presence of Proud Boys, other extreme groups creates mass radicalization fears.
February 15. Jordan Green: Why accelerationist Proud Boys latched on to big conservative rallies in DC last month.
March 8. Spencer S. Hsu & Devlin Barrett: Longtime Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio charged with conspiracy in Jan. 6 attack on Capitol: Arrest shows prosecutors are moving beyond the scene of the crime toward anyone who directed or planned such violence.
May 11. David Gilbert: Irish Proud Boys Try to Hide It, But They’re Just as Racist as Their US Counterparts.
May 31. Peter Smith: Former Canadian Proud Boys Behind Neo-Nazi Propaganda Network: We spent over a year inside the network uncovering the identities of former Proud Boys as they built a propaganda channel with 42,000 plus followers and networked with other fascists and a white power gang.
June 2. Alan Feuer & Patricia Mazzei: How the Proud Boys Gripped the Miami-Dade Republican Party: It was once Jeb Bush’s base of power. But an influx of far-right activists and the radicalization of other members brought turmoil.
June 6. Tess Owen: Proud Boys Leaders Were Just Charged With Sedition Against the United States.
June 7. Military.com: Veterans Make Up Most of Proud Boys Members Indicted on Sedition for Jan. 6 Violence.
June 10. Cameron Joseph: Key Trump Allies Were Talking to Proud Boys Before Jan. 6, Committee Says: Here’s what we know about the connections between the Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers, and key members of former President Trump’s orbit.
June 15. Ryan J. Reilly: Court document in Proud Boys case laid out plan to occupy Capitol buildings on Jan. 6: “The goal is to ensure there is an entry point for the masses to rush the building,” states the nine-page document, titled “1776 Returns.”
July 12. Tess Owen: Congress Has Roger Stone’s Encrypted Chats With Proud Boys and Oath Keepers.
August 24. Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling: Photos Show Proud Boy Working at Miami Polling Station.
September 18. Adam Hochschild: The Proud Boys and the Long-Lived Anxieties of American Men: Andy Campbell details the history of an ascendant far-right group.
September 19. Ed Pilkington: Proud Boys memo reveals meticulous planning for ‘street-level violence’.
September 26. Tess Owen: Proud Boys, Neo-Nazis, and White Nationalists Protested ‘Drag Bingo’ at Texas Church: About 100 far-right protesters were met by 100 counterprotesters at a Texas church hosting a drag event. Participants from both sides had guns.
October 25. Tess Owen: What Really Happened at the Penn State Protest Against Proud Boys Founder Gavin McInnes:For weeks, students had been demanding the school cancel a right-wing “comedy” event on campus. The school eventually did, minutes before it was meant to happen, as tensions mounted between protesters and uniformed Proud Boys.
October 26. Cynthia Miller-Idriss: The Proud Boys at Penn State was never going to end well:Penn State played right into the hands of the far-right’s long-term strategy of using college appearances to platform hate.
November 30. Jordan Green. J6 rioter with a pattern of sexual assault went from rallying with the Proud Boys to recruiting for the Base.
December 14. Tess Owen: Proud Boys Abruptly Shifted Focus to Anti-LGBTQ Action in 2022: VICE News tracked Proud Boy activity over the year, showing the far-right street fighting gang’s change in tactics as the GOP pushed a new culture war.
December 23. Tess Owen: Proud Boys Leader Told Jan. 6 Investigators Oath Keepers Dropped His Name for Clout.